[Tfug] Firefox and TIFFs

[Claude Rubinson]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 04:43:55PM -0700, Robert Hunter wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:51:21PM +0000, Eric M. Gearhart wrote:
> > I get the impression from the Wikipedia article that TIFF is "owned
> > by" Adobe - I dunno if Firefox wants to dip their toe into that for
> > fear of Adobe asking for a license to implement it, or something
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> > Although on second search I see the libtiff project - I wonder why
> > Firefox doesn't implement that natively... hmm.
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> > Anyone tried tiff-plugin? http://tiff-plugin.sourceforge.net/ 
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> The wikipedia article also mentions some stuff about exploits in
> libtiff.  That could be one reason why the mozilla folks avoid it.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF#Exploits

But that wouldn't explain why IE doesn't support it!  ;^D

C.